1970:

March 25 – The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 mph 1,127 km/h).

April 10 – Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded.

April 22 – The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S.

May 4 – Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and 9 wounded by Ohio State National Guardsmen, at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.

May 8 – The Beatles release their 12th and final album, Let It Be.

May 9 – In Washington, D.C., 100,000 people demonstrate against the Vietnam War.

July 11 – The first tunnel under the Pyrenees links the towns of Aragnouet (France) and Bielsa (Spain).

August 26 – The Women's Strike For Equality takes place down Fifth Avenue in New York City.

September 9 – Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

September 11 – The Ford Pinto is introduced.

October 5 – The Public Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting.

October 12 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.

October 15 – The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Cincinnati Reds in Game 5 of the World Series, 9–3, to win the series 4 games to 1 for their 2nd World Championship.

October 24 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.

October 26 – Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.

November 3 – Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia.

November 9 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 not to hear a case by the state of Massachusetts, about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

November 17 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.

November 23 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! makes its network TV debut, when CBS telecasts the 1955 film version as a 3-hour Thanksgiving special.

November 27 – Pope Paul VI visits Manila.

December 7 – The U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of South Africa for its apartheid policies.

December 7 – During his visit to the Polish capital, German Chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in front of a monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto.

December 23 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.

Nobel Prizes: Literature – Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn


1971:

January 12 – The landmark television sitcom All In The Family, starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS.

January 17 – Super Bowl V: The Baltimore Colts defeat the Dallas Cowboys 16–13 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.

January 19 – Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize oil prices. February 14 they sign a treaty with 6 Persian Gulf countries.

January 25 – In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.

January 31 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 (carrying astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell) lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission.

February 5 – Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.

February 8 – A new stock market index called the Nasdaq debuts.

February 9 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.

February 13 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.

February 26 – Secretary General U Thant signs the United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.

March 8 – Boxer Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden.

March 29 – A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and 3 female followers.

April 5 – Mount Etna erupts in Sicily.

April 9 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death; in 1972, the sentence for all California Death Row inmates is commuted to life imprisonment.

April 17 – The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at Mujibnagor.

April 19 – The government of Bangladesh flees to India.

April 19 – Followers of Charles Manson, the Manson Family, are sentenced to the gas chamber.

April 21 – François Duvalier, president of Haiti, dies; his son Jean-Claude Duvalier follows him as president-for-life.

April 24 – Five hundred thousand people in Washington, DC and 125,000 in San Francisco march in protest against the Vietnam War.

April 30 – The Milwaukee Bucks win the NBA World Championship, sweeping the Baltimore Bullets in four straight games.

May 1 – Amtrak begins inter-city rail passenger service in the United States.

May 3 – The Harris Poll claims that 60% of Americans are against the Vietnam War.

May 31 – The birth of Bangladesh is declared by the government in exile, in territory formerly part of Pakistan.

July 16 – Spanish dictator and head of state Francisco Franco makes Prince Juan Carlos his successor.

July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,362 feet, making it the second tallest building in the world.

July 31 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in a lunar rover, a day after landing on the Moon.

August 1 – In New York City, 40,000 attend the Concert for Bangladesh.

August 6 – A lunar eclipse lasting 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 4 seconds is observed.

August 7 – Apollo 15 returns to Earth.

August 15 – President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system. He also imposes a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.

August 25 – Bangladesh and eastern Bengal are flooded; thousands flee the area.

September 8 – In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

October 1 – Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida

October 21 U.S. President Richard Nixon nominates William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court.

October 25 – The United Nations General Assembly admits the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (or Taiwan).

October 28 The British House of Commons votes 356–244 in favour of joining the European Economic Community.

November 3 – The UNIX Programmer's Manual is published.

October 29 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest since January 1966).

November 12 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.

November 15 – Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.

December 11 – The Libertarian Party (United States) is established.

December 18 – The U.S. dollar is devalued for the second time in history.

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Music:

1969: The 5th Dimension: The Age of Aquarius

Raphael:

1966 "Cuando tú no estás", con Leonardo Martín, Juan Cobos y Miguel Rubio, escrita y dirigida por Mario Camus (Incluye 8 canciones).

1967 "Al ponerse el sol", con Leonardo Martín, Juan Cobos y Miguel Rubio, escrita y dirigida por Mario Camus (Incluye 10 canciones).

1968 "Digan lo que digan" -coproducción con Argentina- sobre una idea de Antonio Gala y Miguel Rubio, con la colaboración de Ulyses Petit de Murat, sobre argumento de Horacio Guisado. Escrita y dirigida por Mario Camus (Incluye 8 canciones).

1971:

Elton John has first international hit with Your Song.
Elvis Country - Elvis Presley
El Derecho de Vivir en Paz - Víctor Jara
Imagine - John Lennon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(album)
People Like Us - The Mamas & the Papas
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Aretha Franklin
"It's Impossible" - Perry Como ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Manzanero
"Never Can Say Goodbye" - The Jackson 5
"Oye Como Va" - Santana
"Rainy Days and Mondays" - The Carpenters
"Remember Me" - Diana Ross
"She's A Lady" - Tom Jones
Sugar, Sugar" - Sakkarin
"Summer of '42" - Peter Nero
""Superstar" (from Jesus Christ Superstar) - Murray Head
"Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)" - The Temptations
"Surrender" - Diana Ross
"Take Me Home Country Roads" - John Denver and Fat City

Musical theater: Jesus Christ Superstar (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice) - Broadway production (eighteen months)


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Deaths:

April 6 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
April 21 - Papa Doc Duvalier, President of Haiti (b. 1907)
July 6 – Louis Armstrong, African-American jazz trumpeter (What A Wonderful World) (b. 1901)

Nobel Prizes:

Literature – Pablo Neruda
Peace – Willy Brandt

 

 

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